Sven Trygve Falck
Norwegian politician
Sven Trygve Falck (9 March 1943 – 27 August 2019) was a Norwegian engineer, businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Tønsberg as a son of bookseller Trygve Falck (1905–1974) and housewife Inger Erikson (1909–1995). He finished his secondary education in 1962 and took the siv.ing. degree in chemical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1967. While studying he edited Under Dusken in 1964.
His first engineering job was at Dow Chemical Co. in Texas from 1967 to 1970. After a year at Dow Chemical Co. in Germany, he was hired in Norsk Hydro in 1971. He was an engineer for Norsk Hydro at Rafnes from 1975, then chief engineer for Norsk Hydro in Porsgrunn from 1976 to 1981.
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